Describe how one or both sides of your family were either indigenous or their path coming to the United States. Explain and tell the story.

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Describe how one or both sides of your family were either indigenous or their path coming to the United States. Explain and tell the story.

Apply the terms of either cultural assimilation (acculturation), structural assimilation, amalgamation, or pluralism. (define the term you use)

Relate this to 2+ sociological terms from the lecture or the textbook. Define the term first then connect it to your response. (examples: waves of immigration, pushes/pulls of migration, double-consciousness, model minority …)

Explain how you think about your own ethnic identity. (If you do not have a strong ethnic identity explain why – assimilation for example)

Indigenous
Pushes/Pulls of migration
Waves of Immigration
Cultural assimilation
Structural assimilation
Model minority
Amalgamation
Islamaphobia
Ethnic enclave
Anti-Semitism
Xenophobia
Immigration Act of 1924
Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965
Refugees & asylum seekers
Immigration
Segregation/Jim Crow Era
De facto segregation
Double-Consciousness
Hispanic vs. Latino/a/x
Japanese internment
Pan-ethnicity
Pluralism/multiculturalism

Above are the key terms, please use 2 and connect that to the assignment. 275+ word limit

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